User image flairs appear broken across multiple subreddits

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/m1pb6r/user_image_flairs_appear_broken_across_multiple/

created by GodOfAtheism on 10/03/2021 at 04:27 UTC

32 upvotes, 17 top-level comments (showing 17)

At least in old reddit.

Have confirmed this issue on r/atheism, as well as r/dfo and r/kol. Issue appears to be circumventable by using some flair text, as the issue does not exist in r/leagueoflegends, which does exactly that.

Comments

Comment by xavion at 10/03/2021 at 05:41 UTC*

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Yeah, can confirm this is happening on /r/whowouldwin too, this post helped lead me to the cause. It looks like they might have rolled out an update which causes flair with empty strings to not be rendered in the html, so any sub which uses css flairs purely for images is likely experiencing issues. I'd noticed this on three separate subs which do that.

EDIT: Zero-width spaces seem to work as a workaround for a non rendered characters.

Comment by matt01ss at 11/03/2021 at 03:11 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Yep, confirmed on several of my subs as well

Comment by mobuco at 14/03/2021 at 13:58 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

any fix/update to this?

Comment by dWARUDO at 14/03/2021 at 23:06 UTC

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I've been going crazy thinking the problem is on me. Most subreddits I visit are bugged like this.

Comment by [deleted] at 15/03/2021 at 16:59 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Also having this issue in /r/stlouisblues

Comment by Shock4ndAwe at 16/03/2021 at 15:06 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

/r/pcgaming experiencing this issue as well.

Comment by BurritoJusticeLeague at 16/03/2021 at 22:07 UTC

2 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Thanks for posting and for the all the details. Someone brought up this issue in our recent r/blog post[1] and I've created a ticket for the team to look into it.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/m6hcan/online_status_controls_a_new_display_for_user/gr65igm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Comment by mynameismunka at 19/03/2021 at 16:15 UTC

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Here is a fix. You just need to fill out the text field with something

https://imgur.com/2orPHk1

Comment by bibbleskit at 19/03/2021 at 19:08 UTC

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Same for /r/shorthairedwaifus.

Comment by Molly2925 at 23/03/2021 at 17:08 UTC

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I've noticed this happening too. For me, it's occurring on r/amiibo , r/pokemon , and r/NintendoSwitch (except for exactly one flair that displays properly for some reason). Thought it was a problem on my end, but I guess not?

Comment by SammieAgnes at 27/03/2021 at 06:10 UTC

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Happening on /r/darksouls, /r/DarkSouls2, /r/demonssouls, /r/darksouls3, and /r/bloodborne as well.

Comment by calexil at 31/03/2021 at 22:34 UTC

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confirming this is cross-site, and ongoing

r/linuxmint r/Pauper r/Skullgirls r/ProCSS r/Stepmania r/RedesignHelp r/saltbot r/calexil

Comment by AccidentalCrouton at 11/06/2021 at 01:02 UTC

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Heya thanks for everyone's patience on this! I've just fixed the issue; please let me know if you're still seeing it :)

Comment by KirbyOnPaws at 06/05/2024 at 02:50 UTC

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wont work

Comment by Sspockuss at 10/03/2021 at 20:32 UTC

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This is also happening on r/Danganronpa and r/ZeroEscape, pretty annoying tbh =/

Comment by Weeklyn00b at 10/05/2021 at 16:29 UTC

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It's such a simple fix, which is to have some sort of text in the flairs, but it's not getting fixed it seems. It's really sad that the old reddit is getting ignored. It looks and functions much better, ESPECIALLY for desktop.

Comment by kentucky-Mutombo at 01/08/2022 at 23:48 UTC

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i get less views when post with them